By Robin Givhan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 13, 2006
Martha-Ann Alito sat in the row of supporters directly behind her husband, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. One tried not to stare at her clothes. But while Alito was attired in Washington's equivalent of battlefield camouflage, his wife was in exuberant parade dress.
Over the course of four days, as Alito faced the Senate judiciary committee, the couple often touched hands during breaks and gave each other glancing smiles and occasionally pressed their heads together in intimate conversations.
She did not sit behind him nodding like a dutiful, TV-perfect wife. Sometimes she slouched. She looked attentive but not enthralled. Pleasant but not obsequiously adoring. They looked like a married couple, but not the typical political one.
Samuel Alito eschewed the more formal -- and some would argue more elegant -- French cuffs for the standard barrel ones. His shirts were perfectly starched. His suits were dark, sober and trim. He looked tidy but not fancy. The nominee wore nothing eye-catching. He didn't even have an American flag pin affixed to his lapel, an accessory that has been de rigueur for anyone facing a microphone, television cameras and a row of lawmakers. Visually, Alito was as unremarkable as possible. Even the patterns on his ties, which were either a patriotic red or blue, were so subtle as not to even register unless inspected under a magnifying glass.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011202186.htmlLike Ed Helms said last night, 'nothing Xanax and Talbots can't fix'.
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